Here’s our snap report. More from Jeremy Whittle to follow later.
Tom Paternoster-Howe gets in touch: “At 16.31 you asked if other sports should do combativity prizes. County cricket kind of does, because teams get bonus points for scoring lots of runs or taking lots of wickets quickly in the first innings, which encourages a more attacking and combative game to develop. Additionally rugby union’s bonus points for scoring 4+ tries or for losing by less than 7 points encourages greater attacking in the closing stages of games that might otherwise be meandering towards a clear win for one team.
“I wonder if other sports with a tendency towards the processional and meandering could do something like this – some sort of bonus points for the most overtakes (excluding of one’s team-mate) in F1 might make the tedium it has become more exciting.”
